Word: robertses
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Entries in last year's HBS competition ranged from "an enhanced international facsimile service to a salt mine in the Soviet Union, to retail stores, restaurants and Internet marketing companies," said Michael J. Roberts '79, executive director of entrepreneurial studies at HBS.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals also selects an annual Woman of the Year. Last year, the honors went to actors Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.
Romance writer Nora Roberts should be flattered that rival author Janet Dailey thought Roberts was so creative and talented that her words were worth copying [PEOPLE, Aug. 11]. In fact, maybe Dailey's plagiarizing of Roberts' phrases and ideas was a worthwhile endeavor. Edgar Allan Poe starts The Fall of...
The item on Roberts and Dailey was condescending in the extreme and trivialized the matter of plagiarism. If this had involved two male writers of a male-oriented genre--say the shoot-'em, blow-'em-up, stab-'em-in-the-belly genre (and we all know how classy these books...
Finally, we don't believe a word of this. (A black helicopter hovering unremarked over a crowded Union Square? I don't think so.) But Gibson blurs the line between lunacy and lucidity very funnily, Roberts is a woman who could drive any man sane, and some of the film...